[KLUG Members] connecting to a cisco VPN

[Greg Mason]

On Dec 10, 2004, at 2:31 PM, awilliam at whitemice.org wrote:

>> I need to connect to a government Cisco 3000 VPN concentrator from my
>> Linux box. They are telling me that I need to download a Cisco 3000 
>> VPN
>> client software and compile it into my kernel.
>
> You should be able to compile a module FOR the kernel, without 
> compiling
> THE kernel.
>
>> Besides the fact that I've never been able to successfully compile a
>> kernel and have it still work like it did out of the box, this seems a
>
> Agree, even I don't compile kernels anymore;  and there is very very 
> very
> little reason to ever do so.

At school (Olivet College) they have a Cisco VPN setup to keep the 
wireless network secure. The Cisco installer is actually pretty darn 
easy to use. You tell it where the kernel source is, and where modules 
go. It'll compile away, and then you just need to configure it (pretty 
easy to do under SuSE, don't know about other distros) to load at 
startup. There's also a service that has to startup. You'll also need a 
copy of the config file (ends with .vcf) loaded into the Cisco 
directory in /etc

clear as mud?

-Greg